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100 Backers have signed up! Join Sharon Bamber on an incredible journey, painting and walking 1000 miles with her donkey along an ancient pathway through France to Spain. Every 5 miles painting the way of Saint James. She will share its unique sense of place through 200 plain air paintings.

"I'm planning to walk and paint The Way of Saint James from Le Puy en Velay in France (along the section of The Way of St James known as the Via Podiensis), over the Pyrenees and across Spain (along the section of the Way of St James known as the Camino de Santiago de Compostela) through Santiago de Compostela to Finisterre.

I'll be walking the 1000 miles alongside my donkey, Midas, stopping to do a plein air painting every 5 miles along the entire route."

Scheduled for August 29 - September 2, 2018, this workshop/retreat will focus on the importance of cultivating both technique and intuition in your artwork. Cost includes lodging, three meals a day and workshop for $560. Located at the Pecos Benedictine Monastery (40 minutes drive from Santa Fe). For more information contact Tobi at TobiClementArtist.com.

Capture the beauty of Llano Estacado in this three day workshop on location.

Each day will focus on a different set of subjects: rustic outdoor scenery, verdant garden life, and clouds of the New Mexico sky.

Join Dick Wimberly in this outdoor painting class. Each day he will discuss painting principles and demonstrate techniques in his limited color plein air pallet. Participants will choose their subjects and be guided through producing their own works.

Attendees can expect to work on at least two paintings per day. After the workshop participants will have the option of hanging their work alongside a Plein Air Painters of New Mexico exhibition at Clovis Community College.

Dick is a plein air artist whose paintings communicate the moods and seasons of nature. He has been given the gift of translating what he see and feels into paint on canvas and feels a responsibility and obligation to share that gift. Dick's work is characterized by a sense of authenticity —he prefers to paint on location to better capture the feel of his subject.

He has been painting outdoors for 40 years, and has taught art to everyone from children in Albuquerque Public Schools to adults at Eastern New Mexico University.

Dick has been a professional artist since graduation from Eastern New Mexico University. He has studied with Wilson Hurley, Clyde Aspevig and Michael Lynch.

Dick Wimberly serves as the Vice President of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico and is a member of the Oil Painters of America and of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.

Learn how to be bold in your still-life painting and let your own voice sing! Michelle Chrisman will teach you how to make bold, decisive, strokes in thick,
luscious oil paints using a palette knife. You will learn how to move color
and to create value and form. Students will learn about principles of
expressionism, including working to create mood and ideas. This workshop is open to all levels of painters - beginning to advanced.

Art School Workshop: Plein Air Landscape with Michelle Chrisman
Class Fee: $150 / $135 for Harwood Members
Materials: Students will be provided a supply list upon registration
Join noted artist, Michelle Chrisman, for a weekend of plein air landscape painting surrounded by beautiful spring scenery. All skill levels and painting mediums are welcome. In this outdoor workshop, students will paint several small studies and two medium paintings per day. This workshop will explore outdoor landscape painting utilizing spectral light in the principles of the French impressionists. The plein air painting method incorporates the use of large simplified shapes, correct color values, strong light / shadow pattern,
color temperature shifts and hard & soft edges.Saturday & Sunday, May 26 & 27 // 9:00am - 5:00pm
Albuquerque, NM // North Valley & Corrales locales

I am pleased to share that I have had 2 solo shows in 2018. One in Lexington, VA in February and the current show, "Simply Southern", at On the Waterfront Gallery in Apalachicola, Fl. It opened with an artist reception, May 4 and will run through the end of the month.

I am honored and humbled that my painting "Morning Sparkles" was juried into the NOAPS Best of America small works show at Richland Fine Art in Nashville TN, April 30- May 26. I am thrilled to announce that the painting won an award of merit at the opening reception May 4.

I am looking forward to the plein air season... I will be painting in the Carmel Art Festival, May 16-20, Plein Air Southwest, Rockland Center for the Arts, May 20-27, and the Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival in Canada, June14-17.

Signature Member Damien Gonzales received an Honorable Mention at the 2nd Annual American Impressionist Society Impressions Small Works Showcase. Below is a link to the AIS page to review the entire show. AIS also has some video and other information on their Facebook page. Attached is a better picture of Damien's 8”x10” oil on panel.